Archive for August 2018
Resilience and collective responsibility in peace building in Palestine
August 20, 2018
In July, my colleague Rachel Warden and I travelled to the West Bank to visit with Wi’am: Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center, one of five KAIROS partner organizations in the Women of Courage: Women, Peace and Security (WPS) program. I was…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Middle East
800 students learn to “combat racism and ignorance” through the KAIROS Blanket Exercise
August 17, 2018
The blankets represent land in Canada and the participants are the Indigenous people or European settlers Photo: Students were placed into groups and were asked to pick and sit on a blanket of their choice. The blankets represent land in Canada,…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
Ecumenical Call to stop the demolition of Khan al Ahmar
August 16, 2018
“By silence and inaction, governments have become complicit in this violation of international law…” KAIROS joins fifteen international faith-based, civil society, and human rights organizations from around the world in collectively calling on our governments to take action to stop…
Post filed in: Middle East
KAIROS Signs-on to letter in response to killing of Guatemalan land and life defender Ángel Estuardo Quevedo
August 8, 2018
In response to the killing of human rights defender Ángel Estuardo Quevedo on July 12, 2018 in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima, Guatemala, KAIROS has joined over 60 civil society organizations from across Canada and the United States…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Latin America
Witness to Injustice: The KAIROS Blanket Exercise
August 8, 2018
Photo: This painting features an Onondaga Gustoweh (headgear) by Onondaga artist Josephine M. Cook for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. Posters can be purchased online. This article was written by Kaluhyanu:wes and Michelle Schenandoah and originally published in Onoñda’geh…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
Spirited Reflection: From reconciliation to reckoning
August 1, 2018
August 9th is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the day set aside by the United Nations to promote the protection of Indigenous rights and to mark the day, thirty-six years ago, that a working group focused on…
Post filed in: Spirited Reflections
